Vovinam (short for Võ Việt Nam; Vietnamese: Việt Võ Đạo, Martial Arts of Vietnam) is a Vietnamese martial art.
Vovinam is practiced with and without weapons. It is based on the principle of between hard and soft. It includes training of the body as well as the mind. It uses force and reaction of the opponent. Vovinam also includes hand, elbow, kicks, escape- and levering techniques. Both attack and defense techniques are trained, as well as forms, combat and traditional wrestling. The wide range of techniques include punching, kicking etc. as well as forms, wrestling, sword, staff, axe, folding fan and others.
Self-defense techniques cover defense against weaponless attacks like choking from behind and defense against attacks with knife or sword. Advanced students learn to combine the techniques and learn to defend themselves against armed opponents. Instructors train traditional weapons like the long stick, short stick, knife, sword and sabre. Thereby the weapons serve as training devices for reaching optimal control of body and mind.

rolling techniques in order to avoid getting injured during practice. Vovinam
employs a colored belt system to denote rank, with seventeen belts ascending
from shades of blue for beginners to the white belt with blue, black, yellow, and
red ...

Vovinam's Đòn Chân the deadly Vietnamese scissor kick.Đòn chân kẹp cổ: This should give you the basic ideaOne of the signs of modernization and indeed westernization in the martial arts discourse of our day is the application of cost benefit analysis to our evaluation of fighting techniques. Viewed from a scientific point of view every technique has three parameters for measuring its effectiveness: Cost, benefit, and hit percentage.

KERSTIN WINTER
Picture a fight in a bar with a guy being attacked by three screaming men who fight him with a machete, a knife and a chair. After 25 seconds, the three attackers lie dead on the floor.
That’s what vovinam, a Vietnamese martial art, looks like.
It is a fast and furious show requiring some acrobatic action, a bit of martial art film-style acting, and complete body control.